About This is a simple blog reviewing tabletop roleplaying adventures that I have run. I try to keep these reviews short and focussed: Are they fun? Are the...
After having concluded our long-running Shadowdark campaign we decided to give the 2024 5e rules a try and embarked on a new campaign in Neverland . This time around I decided to approach 5e from an OSR perspective and just run it with that attitude and see what would happen. As Gavin Norman’s Incandescent Grottoes fit the setting of Neverland perfectly I thought I’d give it a try and integrated…
Last night we played Graves Left Wanting by Karl Druid from the Mörk Borg supplement Heretic . Also available here for free. It is a short Graveyard crawl in the bleak region of Graven-Tosk which we used to fill a gap in our current ongoing Daggerheart game. Layout and organization is pretty straightforward and table usable, albeit not as well done as Rotblack Sludge in the rulebook. Particularly…
I played this adventure solo with a set of four characters, so take the review with a grain of salt if you intend to run it for a group, as the issues that popped up might have differed if players had pushed a bit more against the framework of the adventure. The adventure is by Nate Treme and part of the OSE Adventure Anthology 2 and intended for a group of 1st-3rd level characters. As solo…
It’s always worthwhile to revisit this question from time to time, and to see where one’s own strengths and failures lie in order to improve on them to up our game going forward. Some of these are more important than others, some come naturally to some, others might take a lifetime to master. This list is not exhaustive. Is confident, but flexible Is able to transport players: language,…
Here is a quick update to my tier list of adventures I have run! It has been more than a year since I published the original list, the following adventures I have played since then: New to the List Stonehell Rotblack Sludge Raiders of the Hidden Temple Wavestone Monolith Sablewood Messengers The Ogre Rotblack Sludge Barrow of the Bone Blaggards Shadowdark Adventure Anthology: Halls of the Dwarf…
We recently concluded our extended campaign of the Gloaming from Cursed Scroll #1. We plugged a lot of classic OSR modules into the setting and had overall a fantastic time. For the curious here is the list of published modules in the order we played them. Between these we played also a bunch of smaller adventures I wrote myself. Hideous Halls of Mugdublub Winters Daughter Willowby Hall Wavestone…
This was a quick impromptu session with my nephews using their beloved 5e. We used the first adventure “Barrow of the Bone Blaggards” from the OSE Adventure Anthology 2 by Chance Dudinack that I had given myself for Christmas. Given their young age some of the subtleties of the dungeon were lost on them such as the partying and skeletons craving to have a body again. Instead it played out as a…
Another year in TTRPGs concluded and this time around I managed to play 10 different systems. It was still a pretty D&D centric year but with some nice variants of a proven formula. This time I’ll go from most played to least played. Shadowdark Last year’s retrospective ended with the question of if I’d manage to pry Shadowdark away from my in-person group, which I did not manage to do :). Instead…
How does one review a megadungeon? And how does the experience of reading it differ from actually playing it? A great deal. Stonehell reads and presents itself as interesting place, an abandoned prison social experiment that has gone off the rails. Written by Michael Curtis of DCC fame and hallowed by the OSR community as one of the great megadungeons, this module had a lot to live up to. In play…
Yesterday I ran my first game of Mörk Borg for my online group. The group is a mix of experienced 5e players where we take turns in the GM seat and sprinkle in other systems between campaigns to fill the gaps. Our previous excursion was Daggerheart, so this was on the opposite end of the spectrum of D&D’esque TTRPGs. Much virtual ink has been spilled about Mörk Borg as a visual artifact, the book…